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DAYTON DAILY NEWS SUNDAY, MAY 19, 1937 SPORTS SECTION 24 PAGES 4 R4M0, TELEVISIOS AMVSEMESTS Redlesfs Lose a' 1 -w. snmr union To Giants, 6-3 Tcbbctlsmcn Slill Lead League; Nuxball Cbased Bv tD Dallv News Sports Writer CINCINNATI, May 18 Ruben Gomez stuck a cbf- ye 0 7 Took. Years Kccovcrv From Bad Tcelli to JIakc Gross a Winner "IT'S ABOUT TIME you met Donald John Gross, the Iffinandcd pitcher who is the his surprise of Cincinnati first-place pitching corps. To this point, Gross has won three straight games during the streak that carried the Redlegs to first place. Significantly, he has neither beaten nor started against the St.

Louis Cardinals. The Cards were Don's sole claim to fame in the 10j6 campaign. Involved in only three National league T1 of the Cincinnati express BOLD RULER ROMPS Arcaro Pushed Colt to ACROSS FINISH LINE WITH PLENTY TO SPARE TO WIN PREAKNESS Victory in Rich Race. Iron Liege (4), 2nd, Inside Tract (Hidden), 3rd. A.P.

1ROS LIEGE BARELY TAKES SECOND decisions, the Cards were the parties of the second part on each occasion and. each time. Don was the winner. tiros is a broadshouldered southpaw, so stocky in build that he looks several inches shorter than the 511 with which he Is credited in the Redlegs yearbook. He packs solid lt pound on his frame.

The hand-Mime fellow one of the tew bachelors on the Cincinnati squad. Don is a complete product of the Cincinnati farm system, only 25 years of age. He'll he 26 on June 30. He's from the hamlet of Weidman, and sttrwlod Michigan State for one year. His ancestry is German-Irish.

At aize 13, Gross broke in with Mun- 1 fmm "5i Bold Ruler Runs Own Race Wins Preakness cie in the late, lamented Ohio-Indiana league. The lad broke in Impressively with a 15-7 mark and a 3.13 earnrd-run maik. In May. 19.12, his career was interrupted by an Army call. Hejoining Tulsa, after brine mustered out in May, IXA, he Indicted he simply wasn't ready to pitch in the Texas league end was sent down to Columbia.

There, a strange thing happened. He won six in a row, half of them shutouts. Suddenly, he Copped; couldn't get anybody out in the Sally league. Don complained of a toothache, but refused to see a dentist. Bill McCarthy, then general manager of the Columbia club, desperately called Gabe Paul, his boss in Cincinnati, for advice.

"Let me talk with him," said Gabe. "You'll see a dentist." Paul threatened, "or you're off the payroll. Get the work done and we'll pay for it." Gross agreed to visit the dentist. Die dentist discovered abscesses all over the place and did the first-place Kedlegs on RIBLN GOMEZ N.L.'a Top fitcher out an early downpour that delayed the start of the game 37 minutes to cheer every move. Unfortunately, Uwugh, there were few moves for them to cheer on the home side.

Nuxhall had an early lead but couldn't hold it, (and then the Redlegs found themselves running uphill after the fourth. The Redlegs' only big inning put Nuxhall in front 2-1 in the second, but he departed in the fourth when the Giants nailed him for three runs. New York had scored in the top of the second on singles by Darryl Spencer and Foster' Cas. tleman and Dusty Rhodes' fielder's choice, before Cincy had a brief hot streak. Frankie Robinson led off Hie Reds' half with a single 1o left renter and went to third when George Crowe singled to right.

Catcher Smoky Burgess scored Federal Hill bringing up the rear, as he appeared a trifle lame at the finish. -I TOLD Mr. Fifz after the Derby that I thought he would have, run better if. I had let him alone," Arcaro said. "We decided to let him run this time.

He doesn't need managing. He knows more about running than I do." Hartack said that when Iron TJege "couldn't stay with him (Bold Ruler) on the final turn, I knew the only chance I had was for his horse to collapse In the stretch." Bold Ruler didn't. By JOHN CHsNDLKIt BALTIMORE. May 1S-I-P- jThey let Bold Ruler run his race today in the 81st Preakness- 'Stakes and the Wheatley Stable colt humbled the Calumet Farm's favored iron t.iere in Maryland's great three-yeawdd classic. In as thrilling a race as has ever been witnessed at this old cavalry outpost, Eddie Arcaro, Sunny Jimmy Fitzsimmons and got partially even for the licking Iron Liege handed them jtwo weeks ago in the Kentucky -Derby at Louisville.

Not since and Citation has a inner copped the Preakness i Vice President and Mrs. Nixon were among the crowd of 32.836 fee-colored right arm in front here today, and temporarily the siding, 6-3. The loose Latin allowed baseball's hardest hitting lineup just six base knocks, and frustrated their power In six of the nine innings, toppling them 1-2-3. 1 1 Gomez, who won only-seven games last season, was checking Redlegs with steady O'Neil pitching, the New York Giants clobbered Joe Nuxhall and two successors for 14 hits. This made Gomez, six wins and one defeat for the season, winningest in the majors.

He has accounted for exactly half of the Giants' victories. The setback, only thr second in the last 17 games, left Cmcm nati in first place, but with a slim half-game edge over the Milwaukee. NEW YORK took its first from the Redlegs In six games and dropped Cincinnati below .500 in the home park again 5 wins and 6 losses here. It wasn't because the Redlegs lacked vocal backing. A crowd of 16.993 nearly half Ladies Day and Safety Patrol guests sweated 500' Pole Qualifier PAT O'CONNOR He'll Sit on Tolo I put i I i i The vice president accompanied Mrs.

Nixon to the winner's circle, SACHS 2W, RUTTMAX 3RD jammea oia nuitop leac ron yeg(, t00ki wun excitement as up nmner-up role, and Ruler took the lead going iks cojt began to fade. into the backstretch and led thej fold Ruer had a length and parade home by two big lengths half edge after the mile in the jover Willie Hartack and Iron miie and three-sixteenths affair. O'Connor Earns stretch, and Clifford Lusky's Federal Hill the Derby pace, setter came right along as expected with Iron Liege third. In the-Derby Arcaro tried to ier 011 eaeru 1 Pace, then when he asked the 'heatiey, beauty for the answer 8 mia ule lmal uiun get a response. But he got plenty this time.

Bold Ruler and Federal Hill, with Willie Carstens Up, barged around the clubhouse turn head and head, with Iron Liege laying third. Then as they whirled into the Kq Lf-t nk Diilrtu Kanan innViirtrv ait frvMM -t vei l-Jitl Miv in nuiii luci ai ianrf hv thp timA thrv sailer! intn far turn wilh PSS Uinn haU mil(. ,0 ROi Kddie had a tw0 and showed no signs of giving up the ghost as Hartack flailed Iron Liege's flanks with his whip, It did no good, and 'as they roomed down the home stretch with about an eighth of a mile to go it was apparent that noth ing was going to catch. Bold' Ruler, unless it as tt income i tax collector. i But Arcaro, smelling his sweet 10 per cent cut of the $45,250, winner's purse, took no chances.

He laid on with the whip, and; Bold Ruler was the first to greet the judges, although second' choice in the wagering. THE TIME of 1:5615 on a fast track didn't menace the Pirn-lico track record of 1:54 35, set when Nashua, Arcaro and Mr. RnM Ruler ns'id Si.ftn. fin With Hot 143.948 Hobby hen he forced Cror Roy McMillan, playing with JjOO worth of work on the pitcher. "Don't count on this poison leaving his system for a the dental man said.

He was tight. Ihm was taken to spring training with the parent Redlegs In '53, but showed little sign of major league progress. Optioned to Nashville, he got off poorly. Finally, in near the lirst anniversary of his lust Kit to the dentist, ross lasted into the eighth inning and gate up only two run before being lilted. Gross was on the way up alter that.

He finished with the r.edlegs, appearing in 11 games, won four, lost five. Last year, he trained with the club again, but was optioned to Havana. On June 22, 'he was recalled by the parent club. In the International league, he had a 3-2 record, but nobody was doing much scoring. He came back with a Havana earned-run mark of 1.67.

7X0! Impretshf, 1ml We Wins jVLVER looking too impressive, Don worked in 19 games in the National league, moMly in relief and stayed under two in the earned run department, finishing with 1.96. This spring, in. Tampa, he showed so little that there was talk he might be farmed out ga.n., In Birdie Tebbetts' summation of the Florida phase of spring training, Gross was not named as a starting pitcher. His original assignment was as a "long reliever." But Joe NuxhaH'i early-season arm soreness paved the wiy for Dun to start his, first Same against the Pirates on May 5. Cincinnati won, He waited a full week lor a second starting chance against Chicago and won It, 2 1.

Nevt time he had to wait only five days. The Redlegs heat the filnnt easily behind him, li f'riday night. If Birdie was skeptical of Gross' pitching at the start, he has forsaken his douhts now. Gross looks fairly fast, but does not impress as a blazing speedball pitcher. His curve, considered good, is not as explosive as some others in the chance of pace, never quite adequate before, has improved tremendously under the constant Urging of Tom Ferrick.

What Gross docs have is fine control. Marksmanship is his Jong suit. Getting the ball over the plate isn't enough. Hitting the exact spols is whnt counts. Although he doesn't pitch spectacular ball, the strange thing Js that he wins.

This penchant for winning has forced him into tiie enviable position of getting regular calls in Tebbetts' new pitching rotation. By JOE Bl'RNS Daily News Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS, May IS Pat O'Connor today drove 10 miles at an average speed of 143.948 miles per hour win 'Xs. P05 I in tn 1 VT 1 JJ MIC position 41st 0f Liege in the $113,800 gallop. In fact, Iron I.lege almost didn't save second money of IJS.000, as the despised 50 to 1 shot, Inside Tract, closed with a rush and finished third only a neck away from the favored Calumeleer. It was two and a ijuarter lengths back to the fourth horse, Mrs.

Ethel D. Jacobs' Promised I-and. in the field of even yearolds. inside Tract, a fugitive from the claiming races, had never started in a stakes race before, but he hauled down $15,000 for the D. M.

Stable of Raymond De Brino of Valatie, N. and Joseph Marino of Hudson, N. Y. THIS WAS the sixth Preakness fSAtsin all ears evrent the nnle ear victory for Arcaro, the fourth I fjtz salted away the 1955 Preak-for the 82-year-old Sunny for the Ealair stud, auto racing Vi annual inter jr-r a i a 1 vv eepstakes, better known as the Indianapolis Burns O'C or, 28, from North Vernon, cir cled Indianapolis Motor Speed iorn.u.r,Uw. muic icie ociiiniUL oi'iinuui Special, a St.

Louis. chine, at an average of 143.822 iivy nuransn oi tonwooa, t. Wi JS.l 1 and KM. while Iron Liege. '-rnue dhck ana aspnan sent off as the 8-3 choice on 4 minutes.

10.09 seconds' the board, returned K.to and ,0 wt 29-year-oid Eddie The surprising Inside jSachs of Ailentown, by Tract, was.SI.OO to show. 1 22100lhs seconds over the 10 Mrs. Jules Schwartz's Nah Hiss1 nlllps- O'Connor was in a Sumar finished fifth, followed hv Gousm Special -owned by Chapman S. was bunted to second. Red Is here, but with his arm in a Srhoendienst singled him home, cast, result of a track mishap: Then came the tough break for last summer.

jtne Redlegs. Whitey Lrwkman Ed Elisian of Oakland, in drilled one to Temple, who fired the McNamara Special, was first to McMillan for the force play, to qualify today, at 141.777. (McMillan was slow to pivot on it St onic IrDhrtts mom i A EDDIE ARCARO Wins Sixth Preakness and she presented the huge Woodlawn vase to Mrs. Phipps. Sunny Jim won his first Preakness with Gallant Fox in 1930.

I then ith Omaha in 1935, Nashua. and I i of city, state and county police ranging from 115.000 to 130,000," and averaging 125.000 saw nine drivers qualify for the time being, Only Connor is "in for cer- i 'ns vulnerable to bumping ny cars turning taster times on the remaining three trial days. cnanccs are gooa war most todays quaiifyers win be in tne starting field of 33 on Mc- Da'- tenner oi me uayion cars was among the nine that made their qualifying runs today or the four others charged with an attempt although they did not complete the required 10 miles. (Each car gets three attempts to qualify; once a car has crossed the starting line after two alloted warmup laps, it is an "attempt," regardless of whether it is finished or not.) i George Walther Dayton' Steel Foundiy Special did not mnva inlrt th ni I nlifvintr lino Ulthouih driver Mike Magill did1 warmup )aps Wore ori i i.ic i i s-tsl s.1 ir: ri vini iji jil li in ici 140.5 mph, compared to 142.980 farly weeK- Crew nons driver. AVERAGE OF THE nine cars that qualified was 142.339 mph.

The record, set last year by Pat Flaherty, is 145.7SS, including the record lap of H6.056. Flaherty I- 1 9 10 if st- Thompsons Inswept, and 1 HAWKS SIGN WILI'ONG ST. LOUIS. May 3S-LT)- fx T'HY do most catchers stay In the big leagues longer than most payers at all other positions? Win "MU speed he managed was -(- "jisJsK. goi on io liie lasiest siantj dean of American trainers, and the first for Mrs.

Henry Carnegie i Phipps, New York and Palmt Beach, socialite. For the Calumet farm of Mrs. Gene Markey, Iexington, it! was a bitter blow, as many ob- servers considered Iron Liege a solid colt who might sweep the jDerby-Preakness-Belmont triple Crown. Calumet did it ith whirlaway in 1941, and Cit jin 19SS-the last 'time it has ation been i accomplished. Arcaro hustled Bold Ruler, who finished fourth in the Kentucky Derby, out of the gate at the top of the rimlico National League Cincinnati 0, 2, Milwaukee Brooklyn Phil'delphia -i 2 St.

Louis Is 2i" "To" 3- 3" "Tf 12: New York Pittsburgh Chicago lost" 1 14 Tebbetts, an old catcher, explains it this way: "Catchers stay on for their experience; for what they know. At all other positions, it's talent that counts." It is Birdie who also definrs a catcher as "an Intelligent roughneck with an arm." "What happens." a reporter asked Tebbetts. "when Don Hoak's bat cools off?" This was early last week. "No problem at all," Die manager replied. "By that time, Wally Post and Gvis Bell will be hitting the way we've learned to expect they can." Thase veteran roommates, Post and Bell, have begun to bang the ball around indeed in the style their supporters have become accustomed to by now.

nenry nieyer ieu uiai in view flagged by officials when rain 0f tie dropoff, haste to the quali-fell for the third time on this fving line was inadvisable, first of four qualifying days. Best The other Dayton entry, the lap of any was Sachs' Shannon Bros. Special, finally Eddie, who was an alternate was moved out of the garage, starter last year but did not go but not onto the track, in mid-to the post, and therefore still is afternoon, after Crew Chief Al a "500" rookie, made each of Watts and his staff had Installed his circuits progressively better -new steering gear they started and capped them with 144.648, building yesterday. Gene Force fastest lap of the When; of Richmond, is the Shan- eight stitches in an ugly cut just anove nis ion anKie, anuea a one toward the centerfield Willie Mays drifted back up the terrace but fell down and landed on his back. Even then, the kid wasn't through.

He mar-aged to get his glove on the bell but couldn't hold it and it went for a triple. NTWHAI.L, out for nearly a month ith a sore arm, makinjj his first start since April 24, took his bath in the fourth. McMillan's ankle may have helped his exit, although Hamilton Joe wasn't too sharp on his own behalf. Dusty Rhodes opened the inning wiih a single to rirht and "IS injured anKie and Schoe'V dienst bumped him, allowing Lockman to beat the double play relay. That brought Mays to the plate.

He had just three homers and none since April He liked what Nuv. showed him though, and drilled one over the 330 toot sign in center onto Western av. That was all for Nuxhall, and even though they didn't know it at the mo nient, for the Redlegs. Crowe's sixth home run, Into the goat run, in the seventh broke a string of 14 straight outs for the Reds, but if. as a dying shot.

New York dented Art Fowler, who pitched sharp relief ball. Sor one run In the eighth, and added another in the ninth oft Hersh Freeman, who usually gobbles the Giants up. Robinson tried to get some thing going in the ninth when he singled with one away, but died there. NOTES: The Redlegs will send Brooks Lawrence and Warren Marker against Luis Arroyo and Bob Kline in Sunday's double- header with Pittsburgh at Crosley field They had to take stitches In McMillan's upper ankle to close the deep cut he got in Friday night's game How many? "I didn't count," Mac answered "He never changes," Birdie Tebbetts chimed in "They told him to brace himself when Doc Ballou (Dr. George Ballou.

team physician) poured iodine into the cut during the game last night and Mac was cooler about it than any of us." The general agreement is that Mac carried eight bits of needlework two inside and six outside Ray Katt, Wants' catcher, who was up to .400 after Tliurs- day'a game, struck out his first four times to the plate today, on only IS pitches Crowe literally fell Into a double play In the eighth He pulled in Ruben Gomez's liner and fell into Rhodes, caught off first base Crowe jumped hil Turn to Redlegs, Page Col. 1 SLY TEAMS DEFINITE Collegians Join Pro Hoop Loop Sjaensl Th PsiIini l'H FORT WAYNE. May 18 The Dayton Collegians officially have joined the new -organized professional American Basketball association. Five oilier midwestern cities made definite commitments iTanRe tentative schedule and These in the nrrler of their atvi pearance, were the qualUiers: Elisian, Freddie Agabashian of Walnut Grove, averaging 142.557 in a Bow es Seal Fast Special; Sachs, Johnny Boyd, Fresno. Boyes Seal Fast Special, 141.102; O'Connor, Jimmy Reece, Indianapolis, Hoyt Machine Special, 142.006; Al Keller, Greenacres, Rardnhl Special, 141.498; Elmer George, Indianapolis, Travelon Trailer Special, 40.729 and Ruttman.

George is the recent bridegroom of Mari Hulman, daughter of Tony Hulman, the speedway's owner. Dick Rathmann of Trenton, Turn to O'Connor. Tage 3, C'ol er'1 iilmofi rA i incoming spikes AP Wirephoto i mr ii fa mi hum i it rtr land the most valuable player in the National Invitational tourna ment this year. Standings 9 9 10 12 14 19 T6G7V loo" 7571;" 2f jT 3," 1 2ii 3 4 2r 7'j JJ96101, 8 .280 10' i 17, 19 18, AMtHll AN tr.ACt Twrolt i. Nfw York 1.

f'lfveiand W'ihlnton t. Ktn Cllv 1. BoMnn S. ('hli-acn 4, Pullininrs 4 eollei nil ol I to allow Chiraio to calch trami. Games Thlraso at Bniton flurhar (lit) trl.

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win and Mntgsn 2i Brow, ill) and Leai 3-S. i Ruttman started over, best he could do was 143.T4T, on la.p No. 3, but he completed his trial at an average of 142.772. LARGEST CROWD ever to see the qualifying trials estimates 4 i If- 7 4 American. Leajruc Standinss 6 'Is as I a iSIm 5' 0 qticago 11 li 1 5 3 4 17 Clevefand 1 1, 2j lj 3 4, 2 4 17.

9 .654 1 New York 31 0i 3j 11 2 16j ioj ,615 2 Boston 1 2 21 31 1 lj 2i Detroit 01' 4j 3, 4j ft 21 2j 15 14; ,517 4'a Kansas City 1 2 Oj 2 4i---t 3j 131 16j 6'a Baltimore Oj 11 0i lj 11 1 51 91 16 1 8'a Washington Oj Oj 1 21 11 01 3j 7i 23j .233 13 LOST 7 101 Mi HI 16 16 23 Yesterday's Results HJMI II hit tniiiia U. 4hn ntlsAB have promised to give their decisions at the next loop meeting here May 31. Already In besides Dayton arei Toledo, Chicago, Trl-Cities, Waterloo, Iowa, and Fort Wayne. Lansing, Indianapolis and Des Moines, Iowa, are the three probable entries. At the organizational meeting here committees were set up to write rules, nominate officers, His Ten Baseball W.

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rvt 4 4 jinnoi 4, ohm "mm i Hums r.iiM, 01 4.3, virhiinn i j-j. Iow Ciit end 'ft ton (inning, tain, nth Indians Jaadlng, Mi. a league operating by next November. DON (MONK) MEINEKE rep-resented the Dayton team here and reported that the Collegians, a group of former University of Dayton players, will probably piny their games in Dayton and not at the Hobart arena in Troy where they played their home games' Inst season. The group agreed that games will be 40 minutes long eight less than the regulation time now used in the National Basketball association and that the league season be between 4il 40 games In length.

Meineke told The Daily News that the Collegians still re with aiwttvcivn tint liiitA If linA out jone up in the near future. The proposed operating budget for each ball club has been set at S.w.000, but Meineke said that i ..,.,,1 1 D6 BVallahle Immediately, Kfw York Clnclnnttl 1. Mllwsukr S. Pltttburih 9. riiiimifiphU 1 St.

Lonia I. Brookly tt ChlrafA rain, Today's Piltuhnnh at CINCINNATI (li (I W'HlOt Arrma 4i and Kltna mm; Uwrenet .41, and HseMr Ynrk a( Milsaukaa AnttmHII PhllaHflphia Chimin (Ji- San'nrit 4 11 and carns-all ll(l VI. Rufh ifr4j i ann rirntt Brnnkivn at St. (Mi Jackinn ill). REDS' ROY McMILLAN leaps high adove Sliding Daryl Spencer Prevents Double Tlay ma jf -4U, -4-4 Sw II a a.A4rffai.